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Clara Barton: American Red Cross
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When Clara came back to the United States, she talked to people about how she felt about wounded soldiers not getting enough attention. Clara ... didn't like where the medical facilities were placed. Clara wanted them closer to the battlefield because she knew that some soldiers did not make it to the hospitals in time. She convinced the U.S.A. to sign the treaty. Clara also became the founder of the American Red Cross. She was the president until 1904.
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Returning to America in 1873 with broken health, Barton spent the next three years as an invalid in Worcester, Massachusetts, and Dansville, New York. Finally, in 1877 she was able to make two trips to Washington. She urged the government's signature of the Geneva Convention... far ignored in the United States, and establishment of an American Red Cross. On May 12, 1881, the American Red Cross was organized, but for years the organization required a continuous battle to keep it alive and functioning.
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After returning to the United States, Barton began a campaign to establish an American Red Cross organization and have it recognized by the U.S. government. She ... advocated to expand the Red Cross services to include aid to citizens during natural or manmade disasters. Thanks to her efforts, the American Red Cross was born in the summer of 1881.
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At the North end of the prison site, there is a pink granite monument dedicated to Clara Barton. Although Clara Barton is widely known as the founder of the American Red Cross, most people do not know of her valuable work at Andersonville. Miss Barton began her career as a school teacher, and then was a clerk in the U.S. Patent Office.
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In 1881 Barton incorporated the American Red Cross, with herself as president. A year later her extraordinary efforts brought about United States ratification of the Geneva Convention. She herself attended conferences of the International Red Cross as the American representative. She was... far from bureaucratic in interests. Although wholly individualistic and unlike reformers who worked on programs for social change, she did a great social service as activist and propagandist.
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Long hailed as the founder of the American Red Cross and dubbed "angel of the battlefield" by Civil War soldiers, Barton ... operated the Missing Soldiers Office from 1865 to 1868, after the war ended. She tracked down information about 22,000 soldiers and founded the first national cemetery, in Andersonville, Ga., marking the graves of more than 13,000 anonymously buried Union soldiers.
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